Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: l e n o u v y
- Total Answers: 36
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
EE
- EE4 β sounds like alley, early, easy, flea, flee
EL
- EL6 β sounds like leaven
EV
- EV6 β as in uniformly; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; uniformly; equally sounds like avidly, easily, heavenly, openly, un**
- EV6 β to gradually become clearer or more detailed; to throw or give off; develop; elaborate; unfold sounds like involve
LE
- LE5 β a bank of earth constructed to control water; a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; dam; dike; embankment sounds like bevy, heavy
- LE5 β the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; degree; echelon sounds like bevel, devil, revel
- LE7 β having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; free from emotional or mental agitation; even; flat; flush sounds like heavily
- LE4 β a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use; to pick especially for required military service; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessment; duty sounds like bevy, heavy
LO
- LO4 β to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO4 β being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
- LO6 β not being in the company of others; sad from lack of companionship or separation from others; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; alone; lone sounds like only
- LO4 β one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
- LO5 β one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; bug; crackbrain sounds like lucy, lunar
- LO4 β to hold dear; to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for; to take pleasure in; appreciate; cherish sounds like dove, g**, leave, live, luck
- LO6 β of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at; as in beauty, goddess; A-OK; A1 sounds like lively
- LO5 β appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion); chocolate-box; cloying; corny sounds like levee, levy, lucky
LU
- LU4 β a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 β sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
NO
- NO4 β the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
- NO8 β as in fashionable, stylish; fashionable; happening; in; modish sounds like knell, naval, navel, nutshell
- NO5 β as in story, tale; as in pulp, novelette; not known or experienced before; anecdote; narrative sounds like naval, navel
- NO7 β
NU
- NU4 β having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull
NY
- NY5 β sounds like pylon
OL
- OL4 β sounds like polio
ON
- ON4 β for nothing other than; not long ago; nothing more than; alone; exclusively sounds like lonely
OV
- OV5 β sounds like mule, view, viewer
UN
- UN8 β as in unequally, differently; not having a level or smooth surface; not staying constant; diversely; unequally sounds like evenly
- UN7 β sounds like upheaval
- UN8 β not giving pleasure to the mind or senses; unpleasant to look at; bad; bitter; disagreeable sounds like lovely
VE
- VE6 β sounds like ennui, fennel, kennel
VO
- VO4 β sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- VO6 β a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; barrage; blitz; blitzkrieg; bombardment sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, valley
YE
- YE4 β to cry out loudly and emotionally; to speak so as to be heard at a distance; a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; howl; scream sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
YU
- YU4 β as in nativity, Xmas; Christmas; nativity; Xmas; Christmastide sounds like mule